bootable HFS+ & NTFS on same volume

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Zeniq

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I have a 100 GB external FireWire hard drive; my goal is to install OS X 10.4 onto an HFS+ partition on this drive, as well as to have a NTFS partition on it for file storage (NTFS will not need to be bootable).

In essence, I would like 4 partitions on this thing:
1. Bootable 10.4
2. Mac file storage
3. NTFS file storage for PCs
4. FAT32 file storage for both Mac and PC access

I attempted this on previous occasions only to find that OS X would not boot from a disk that also had an NTFS partition because for a PC to recognize the partition scheme, a PC partition map had to be used. However, Macs cannot boot from a volume with a PC partition map. I assume that this has changed since the 10.4.6/bootcamp issue.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Zeniq
 
sorry, but what you desire is not yet achievable. the mac can not boot from a drive it does not create the partition table on. thats just the was apple made the os. and boot camp does not change that. why do you need a ntfs partition anyway? its seems rather redundant with the fat32.
 
I bought this FW drive for me; i use PCs. However, I work for a school district, hence massive macs. We often boot from firewire drives to do a quick netrestore, which is why i wanted a bootable HFS partition. However, I wanted to be able to use this drive in my PC environment at home too, (I wanted FAT32 because both PCs and Macs can write to it, but NTFS because of the drawbacks of FAT32, such as filesize limits) and thus conflict arises. But since it does not seem to be possible, i guess i'll drop the subject for now. Thanks Sinclair.

Cheers!
 
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